What You Can Do Quotes

Take your mind off yourself. Focus on what you are doing and how you can do it better.

And the part about being a professional artist is that you can tell, and you can do it over again, even if you can't say how you got there exactly.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about.

I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

If you want to do it, you can do it.

You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.

The most important thing is to know that you can do it.

If I can do it, little old me, you can do it. Trust and believe.

If you're trying to drop ten pages from a screenplay, it hurts like hell, but if you just put it away for a month and then take it out, you can do it just like that!

When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize.

People should know whatever it is you love to do. I am a living testament to the fact that you can do it. You can do whatever it is you put your mind to and you can do it in stilettos.

When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.

You have to like yourself before you can do anything!

I think most people that do comedy write for themselves. I don't think there is any other way you can do it, really. Otherwise it would be quite cynical.

It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him.

...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you take the next step. You can do it very young. You can make progress very fast.

Rapping is a vocal delivery, so you can do it without being part of hip-hop and not knowing what hip-hop is about.

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

I sort of have various sort of theories when people ask me about songwriting because it is a mystery. You don't really know. Sometimes you can do it and sometimes you can't. It's really peculiar.

So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.

The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, "Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?" And all those checkmarks.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it.

You go to school to figure out who you want to be and how you can do it, and [maybe] I should have, because the films would probably be technically better.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I think if you're able to make the music you want and you can do it in the right kind of context, you don't have to be a circus ringleader to be successful.